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All the scripts described below can be read in full on the Lazy Bee Scripts web site (click on the titles).
However, all the scripts on this site are copyrighted. They may not be printed, quoted or performed without the permission of Lazy Bee Scripts.
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Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. One of the characters has the same surname as the author. This is not entirely coincidental.

Run Time

Around 72 minutes. [Estimated!]

Music

The Producer's Copy of the script comes with two original scores. Additional excerpts from Christmas carols could be used at the discretion of the production.

Style

Historical drama, exporing some of the depths of the American Civil War.

Synopsis

The Confederates have been besieged at the railhead of Petersberg for months, reducing food, clothing and ammunition to the barest minimum. Into this desperate situation, on Christmas Eve, come two young girls from opposite sides of the war, each looking for a lost and injured father.

Two song suggestions as well as a musical score for one original song, available with the producer's copy of the script.

Style

A comedy drama with music, for four actors.

Synopsis

A single mother, a businessman and a teenage girl find themselves trapped in a mysterious room. Eventually, the truth of their situation dawns, and the unlikely trio realise they’ll have to work together to find the answers that will set them free.

Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 21. No chorus. Four of the roles are non-speaking.

Run Time

Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!]

Music

Piano/vocal score for the song 'Harmony' is included with the Producer's copy of the script.

Style

One act play (with a song) for a youth theatre group. (Originally commissioned for the youth of the South Shields Customs House Theatre.)

Synopsis

Established as a haven or harmonious living, the village of Harmony is waiting for the prophesied visitors that will declare the village the happiest in the world and bring about world peace. But Lizzy and Bez have dropped in on the vital day, and they will change everything.

Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. The characters are a class of schoolchildren, divided into four groups. Each group acts out Greek myths. Whilst some of the characters in the myths have a specific gender, this need not be the gender of the actor.

Run Time

Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!]

Music

The Producer's Copy of the script comes with scores for three original songs. Further dances can be added at the discretion of the production.

Style

One-act musical play for a full class of children, providing roles for all and an introduction to several Greek myths.

Synopsis

A group of children are shipwrecked on an island, and all they can find is a strange chest with a very odd collection of contents. The items inside help the children tell some old stories and keep up their spirits through the night until they are rescued the next day.

Sheet music for the proglogue song is provided with the Producer's Copy of the script. Other songs may be added at the discretion of the production team.

Style

Full-length comedy play for children (or a mixed company of adults and kids) based on the Willow Pattern story.

Synopsis

Henry Hopper is not the least bit interested in China plates and their history. But when a cursed plate in a museum transports him to ancient China, he soon finds himself caught up in the mystery of two missing bluebirds, a pair of secret lovers, and the role they play in the Willow Pattern...

The script includes lyrics to two songs (and one reprise) set to popular melodies. The producer's copy of the script comes with sheet music for the two songs.

Style

One-act play (with music) for kids. Good against evil. That sort of thing.

Synopsis

With no Lord of the Manor to repair the Market Hall, it's under threat of redevelopment by the wicked Swilco Supermarket, who's got the townspeople bedazzled through the use of O-Bey-Me gas. Can Marshy and Daisy save the day?

Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 25. No chorus. Whilst there are nominally 25 roles, the piece is structured for flexibility - and could be played as a series of linked sketches with different actors playing the recurring characters.

Run Time

Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] Add another 10 minutes for the optional songs.

Music

Piano/vocal scores for two optional songs are provided with the Producer's Copy of the script.

Style

Sword and sandals myth brought to the stage as a comedy play (or series of sketches) for schools (and anyone else), with a couple of optional songs.

Synopsis

The story of Perseus is told with a mixture of narration and brief, dramatised scenes. The narration is delivered by the gods Athene and Hermes - who also take part in several scenes (because they want the hero to get a head.)

Sheet music for four original songs (and two original pieces of music) is provided with the producer's copy of this script.

Style

A play (with music) for children featuring the human immune system - as an injured man imagines what is happening inside his body.

Synopsis

When Mr Gauche accidentally hammers a nail through his thumb, he only wants medical help from the Doctor, but he gets a thorough lesson in the body's defence mechanisms anyway. A version without any music is available here.